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From: kyrimis@tilt.FUN (Kriton Kyrimis)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: A facilitating bug
Message-ID: <394@tilt.FUN>
Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 00:06:43 EST
Article-I.D.: tilt.394
Posted: Thu Mar 13 00:06:43 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Mar-86 05:51:25 EST
References: <786@ucsfcgl.UUCP>
Reply-To: kyrimis@tilt.UUCP (Kriton )
Organization: Princeton University CS Dept
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Summary: 

In article <786@ucsfcgl.UUCP> kneller@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Don Kneller) writes:
>It has occurred to me several times that killer bees just aren't
>as much problem with HACK 1.03 as with version 1.01.  In 1.03 you can
>run away when you're in trouble.  The bees follow you (sometimes), but
>they don't hit.  Previously, they'd follow you (closely) *and* hit.
>After some looking at the code to 1.01 I found the problem.  One
>section of code was changed to use an additional local variable which
>checked to see if the monster was close to you.  However, the variable
>was not updated when a multiple-move monster (B,A,k,o among others)
>moved closer to you.  Thus these monsters didn't "know" they were
>beside you and wouldn't try to hit you.
>
>To make matters even easier for you, when one of these monsters went to move
>again, the position you were at was considered inaccessible (because it was
>occupied by something), so the monster often moved away!  This made killer
>bees appear not to be able to track you even though they were right beside
>you.  Needless to say, this made one of the most difficult monsters *much*
>easier.
>
>This bug fix restores the potency of killer bees (and other multiple-move
>monsters).

Unfortunately, the posted patch makes agile monsters such as  B's
and  A's  ignore  Elbereth (and possibly scare monster scrolls ),
which is not quite right.  As I'm not familiar with the  workings
of  the  hack source I will not venture to offer a bug fix on the
bug fix, but I'll simply caution you against applying this  patch
in its current form.
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	Kriton	(princeton!tilt!kyrimis)
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